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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818119703321

Titolo

The American party battle [[electronic resource] ] : election campaign pamphlets, 1828-1876 . Volume 1 1828-1854 / / edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-674-04364-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320p.)

Collana

The John Harvard library

Altri autori (Persone)

SilbeyJoel H

Disciplina

324.97305

Soggetti

Political parties - United States - History - 19th century

Campaign literature - United States - History - 19th century

United States Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface "Please Read and Circulate" "To Indulge in General Abusive Declamation" "Repellant and Mutually Abhorrent Parties" A Note on the Texts Acknowledgments Introduction: Defining the Soul of the Nation The Great Themes: Continuity and Change "To Save and Exalt the Union" "Consider Well...the Platforms...of the Parties Now Asking Your Suffrage" VOLUME 1 The Evolution of Party Warfare, 1828-1838 Proceedings and Address of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention...Friendly to the Election of Andrew Jackson...(Concord, 1828) The Virginia Address (Richmond, 1828) Proceedings of the Antimasonic Republican Convention of theState of Maine (Hallowell, Me., 1834) To the Electors of Massachusetts (Worcester? 1837) The Jacksonian-Whig Synthesis, 1838-1854 To the Democratic Republican Party of Alabama (n.p., 1840) Address of the Liberty Party of Pennsylvania to the People of the State (Philadelphia, 1844) The Twenty-Ninth Congress, Its Men and Measures; Its Professions and Its Principles...(Washington, 1846) What's the Difference? Cass and Taylor on the Slavery Question (Boston, 1848) Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852(Richmond, 1852)

Sommario/riassunto

The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between



American political parties, and Joel Silbey attempts to capture the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.